Va. Tech Gunman Sent Material to NBC

April 18, 2007 — -- NBC has received a package they believe was sent to the network by Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 people and then himself in a shooting rampage on the university's campus on Monday.

The package includes photographs of Cho holding firearms, law enforcement sources said, but no footage of victims or the first shooting.

The package also contained a DVD with video and a letter running several pages long. Sources describe the letter as angry and rambling---expressing hatred for rich people and elitists. It is described as very similar to the letter discovered in the Cho's dorm room. According to NBC news it states "this did not have to happen."

The package was mailed at 9:01 a.m. Monday morning at a Blacksburg, Va post office, sources said. Cho allegedly put the package in the hands of a female clerk before leaving. The clerk told us a little while ago she remember seeing Cho and recalls having to look up the zipcode for New York City's Rockefeller Plaza.

It appears that the suspect took the time to mail a package in between his shooting spree---showing a degree of cold blooded planning.

He mailed the package right after allegedly having shot people to death at 7:15 a.m.. He then appears to have calmly went on his way back to campus and eye witnesses say he began murdering 29 more people--about 39 minutes later.

The package was mailed to NBC heaquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. It was received today.

The broadcaster says it immediately contacted the FBI New York field office. The FBI is now forwarding the evidence to the Virginia State Police.

MSNBC, the Web site for NBC News, published one of the photos in the package this afternoon.

ABC News' Pierre Thomas contributed to this report.